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Azerbaijan grossly violates the International Humanitarian Law – MP

ARMINFO
Armenia – Aug 24 2022
Alexandr Avanesov

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan grossly violates the International Humanitarian Law, the provisions of the Trilateral Statement: ALARM TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, Taguhi Tovmasyan, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Protection of  Human Rights and Public Affairs, RA Parliament, wrote in a Facbook  post.  

With a regular unlawful decision Azerbaijan's criminal government has  banned the searches for the bodies of the Armenian military personnel  and civilian persons in the occupied by Azerbaijan communities of  Artsakh since January, 2022, thus trying to cause mental suffering to  the Armenians worldwide. 

The Statements from November 10, 2020, January 11, 2021 envisage the  urgent regulation of the humanitarian issues carrying paramount  importance, including "an exchange of prisoners of war, hostages and  other detained persons and bodies of the dead". However, Azerbaijan  unilaterally infringes the interstate arrangements once again,  simultaneously "striking" at the fundamental norms of the  International Humanitarian Law stated in four  Geneva Conventions "On  the Protection of Victims of War" from 1949, in the additional   Geneva Protocol from 1977 attached to August 12, 1949 Geneva  Conventions "On Protection of Victims of International Armed  Conflicts", as well as two additional protocols appearing as a system  of rules aimed at protecting a human during the armed conflict.

The European Convention on Human Rights forms a combination of mutual  initiatives and objective obligations, and the principle of  reciprocity is on. The imperative of implementing the provisions of  the International Humanitarian Law is evident, thus I again address  my international colleagues OSCE Parliamentary Assembly  OSCE Office  for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) OSCE – The  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Council of  Europe DG Human Rights and Rule of Law Council of Europe Council of  Europe Office in Yerevan Council of Europe Commissioner for Human  Rights Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe  U.S. Embassy  Yerevan European Union in Armenia Human Rights Watch UN Armenia  United Nations Human Rights   to condemn such a criminal behavior by  Azerbaijan and take respective measures to protect the fundamental  rights of the missing Armenian military personnel and civilian  persons and their families.

Such a criminal behavior by Azerbaijan sets forward an objective  question: if Azerbaijan doesn't fulfill even the requirements of the  International Humanitarian Law, then why does Nikol Pashinyan bring  I. Aliev's claims to life. Non-implementation by Azerbaijan of the  mentioned humanitarian requirements gives the opportunity to oppose  and act from the position of a claimant to protect Humanitarian Law.  However, Nikol Pashinyan does not do it for obscure reasons.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS